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Monday, 17 October 2005

Double Take on a Library

Double Take on a Library

A large White-fronted house,gravel drive and crocuseson the lawn – no wonderI was nervous when you said,“Let’s go inside and have a look,”in answer to my questionas we passed -without a moment’s pauseyou walked up to the great door,pushed it open, led me inthrough a hall where no-onestopped us,as we traspassed -

past the readersat the shiny tables and the highwhite shelves of books, the undisturbeduncluttered world of library booksreturned and borrowed. So, deception over,

you took out a book, and still the Libraryseemed a private residence – I followedand returned again throughseason’s pendulum; in Winter, inthe crisp blue air when snowthrough floor-to-ceiling windowscovered the sloping garden to the Mole,to Poetry, winter-warm in orangegrey and green, with ghostsof the danger-driven, of warand paranormal loves.

It was there one day aloneI borrowed Laurence Whistler’s “Yestermorrow,”took it home to read and wonderat this grown-up’s super-sorrow,who found new words for loveand for that dark expectancy:the time that was not yesterdaynor yet the unbroughtday that we must live.